Hong Kong Flower Show 香港花卉展 (13-Mar-2009)

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One of the common theme is not to allow the branches to grow straight.

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More learned man in solitude.

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Another comman technique or them in Pen Jing - Forest from a Single Tree (獨木成林). The original tree trunk was bend down then grow the branches upward to form the "forest".

More example follows.

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Sort of 獨木成林

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The use of this type of special rocks (英石) to imitate limestone formation.

The two pictures were taken minutes apart but with two different camera lenses, and the color tones are different!

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This one the rock and the tree are not yet integrated. The tightup mark still on the rock.

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In the scene, the scholar is not reading by playing Gu Qin.

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This one has to be the most unusually Pen Jing. I have never seen any thing like this before.

This tree is quite big at perhaps 4 or 5 feet tall. It was originally one tree, but seems someone split the tree exactly in the middle, then each half moved away from the other half and continue to grow with some branches extending to the other side.

Three Chinese character "勒馬崖" was craved on the inside flat face of one half of the tree. The Chinese writing literally means the cliff where you have to hold back your horse. I think it's describing the sheer straight sharp drop of the cut.

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I put my wide angle lenses right under the tree to make the trees look very big and tall.

The second pictures shows very clear each of the "two" trees are actually half of the orginal.

My friend and I were discussion how this was done. Our speculation is that the tree was split on the top long time ago to allow the top to grow separately. Then the bottom is split and displaced a bit to create the space and effect. Just imagine the time and patience required!

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Another nice combination of tree and rock.